General Sailing
How Was Your Windy Weekend?
Well, since you asked for readers’ observations about this windy weekend, here’s one sailor’s perspective:
Saturday approached its boisterous expectations, although the wind wasn’t particularly noteworthy for SF Bay; its strength was less than on a typical summer afternoon. More »
Get Ready for a Windy Weekend
After weeks and weeks of placid 5- to 10-knot conditions, the Bay is about to do its best impression of summer, only colder. So if you want to avoid midweek traffic, go sailing. More »
Reader Submission: Where’s Whaledo?
We thought we’d end the week with another photo from Jan Passion, taken this summer at the height of humpback rush-hour traffic. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.
Where’s Whaledo? It’s not that hard to find, but not all that easy. More »
A Latitude Far, Far Away
In honor of the release of Star Wars, Episode VIII today, we wanted to share a story from Howard Macken of Sutter Sails, who wrote the following for the September 1983 (Vol. More »
Captain Teem in Cabo
The following is a December 11 blog post from Captain TEEM, a group of sailors we made contact with as they were passing through Sausalito in October. We featured them in December’s Cruise Notes, and they can be found at To Sail or Not To Be. More »
Reader Submissions: The ‘Freda B’
Reader Jan Passion — who sometimes captains the famed Golden Rule — submitted this picture of the Freda B back in October, when the days were about an hour longer and the temperatures noticeably warmer. More »
Boater ID Card and Quiz
Ready or not, here it comes. And like it or not, the law mandating the California Boater Card is going into effect on January 1, 2018.
"The California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) is now accepting applications for the California Boater Card," a DBW press release read. More »
Randall Reeves Hits Latitude 38, South
Making his way to Cape Horn, Randall Reeves finds himself in the upside down. The San Francisco sailor hit our doppelgänger latitude recently, and sent us a picture and a note:
Representing the Bay Area (note the KKMI hat), Randall Reeves said hello from our sister latitude. More »
40 Years of Mischief, Part 3
As mentioned, all the production work on all Latitude 38 magazines was done in-house, from writing, to film developing and printing, to layout. The completed ‘flats’ of layouts then went to whatever printer we were using at the time to be made into actual magazines. More »
Looking for How-To Stories
Have you ever impressed yourself by installing, removing or repairing something on your boat that you thought was impossible to do on your own? Did you tackle a project that you really didn’t think you could manage — a project that you were going to pay a professional to do, before you asked for advice on the dock, watched a YouTube video, and decided to take a shot? More »
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